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  1. Re:Well... on OpenID Foundation Embraced by Big Players · · Score: 1

    Everyone with an LJ id could log in and make comments on Deadjournal when entries called for users to be registered and vice versa.

  2. Re:Free Speech Areas on Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"? · · Score: 1

    Then punish him for truancy, his actual crime. What he was doing while playing truant has nothing to do with it.

  3. Re:no excuse on Spec Will Cut External Drive Power Cords · · Score: 1

    The USB powered scanners are pretty awesome. I used to have a spot in my power strip dedicated to the scanner (it was under the desk and a pain to reach, so I didn't want to plug it in and out all the time), and now in a dorm, outlets are even more of a precious commodity, not mentioning the space. And since my computer is a MBP, I only have two USB ports, so I'm not going to waste one on a scanner full-time anyways (I could afford that at home with four), so it really works out well for me, except I have it stored on top of my shelf hiding some, um, incidental commodities.

  4. Re:I don't believe it on 10-year-old Microsoft Ticket Resurfaces? · · Score: 1

    he said it was his parents. Old people hold on to their phone numbers a lot longer than we youngsters do. For my own parents, we've at least had the same phone number ever since I started remembering phone numbers (15 years maybe?) And that goes for a lot of our neighbors too. when you don't have a cell phone and don't move houses, you can keep your number for ages. The only change to ours is area codes, and not everyone's area code even changed in the state when they added two new ones (little rock for example still uses the old 501)

  5. Way to Stay Up to Date, FEC Instructors! on VBA Going Away, Macs Now, PCs Soon · · Score: 1

    Aw shi--- We start learning VBA in intro to engineering in a few weeks! (after three weeks of Engineering Economics)

  6. Re:must not have been a hard job on Study Touting OOXML Over ODF Is Debunked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, but how many people had to support office 2007, learn how to use office 2007, etc etc etc? From what I've heard it's a little bit different, similar to the way that OO is a little bit different, and the lecturers in class still walked both sets of office users through the differences. What's the difference?

  7. Re:Good Grief! on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts · · Score: 1
    I like to use the self check at walmart because inevitably there are three full carts waiting at every (open) register.

    Plus it's kinda fun once you get the hang of it, although if my mom is with me, she will always grab the bag as soon as I put the last item in so that it doesn't get the chance to weigh it and I have to assure it that I didn't really want to bag the item anyways.

  8. Re:Here's a threat on Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description · · Score: 1

    The only ironic ring 'Zaccari Memorial Parkin Garage' has to it is that memorials are for the dead. If you want to tag someone with a living person's name, you use the word 'Honorary' or none at all to leave it indefinite. (You see the difference when you observe the different bouquets of flowers at the front of certain presbyterian churches over a stretch of years! Mrs. Hepzibah would be mighty displeased if she was greeted with a memorial floral arrangement at her 99th birthday dinner!)

  9. Re:Mmm, Delicious on Edible Antifreeze For Smoother Ice Cream · · Score: 1

    It's not illegal to make it yourself! Yet!

  10. Re:DNS and Certificate services on NSI Registers Every Domain Checked · · Score: 1

    There's already people pushing for alternate namespaces, so maybe you could support them.

  11. Re:Not Quite Universal on Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Most of the apps I use are free or shareware. Adium, KVIRC, cyberduck, firefox, text wrangler, neo office, for example. There is a community of people just as dedicated to building applications for osx as there is for the linux oses. They're also eager to make ports:p I bought my MBP last year because I wanted something 'new', but I still use it because I like it.

  12. Re:this should be nice on Sony BMG Dropping DRM · · Score: 1

    Just 2 days ago I watched on DVD a movie still only in theater-release -- I won't say where (it wasn't at my house), and I won't say who (it wasn't someone I knew). So not only do you pirate movies and music, but you also pirate friendships and acquaintances!
  13. Re:Bad headline on 8 Can't Miss Predictions... for 1998 · · Score: 1

    Someone will say something about the USSR, Natalie Portmen, a Beowolf cluster, or CowboyNeal and be modded "+5 funny"

    Re:Bad headline (Score:5, Funny) by sm62704 (957197) Alter Relationship on Wednesday January 02, @10:13AM (#21882880) Homepage Wow, you were right!
  14. Re:Never understood new years resolutions on New Years Resolutions - An Engineering Approach · · Score: 1

    That's why when people start talking about resolutions and I think that I might should do one, I don't wait until January to start xD The whole glutting yourself on what you want to give up doesn't really make sense, if you're going to be going off into the wilderness to like save someone and gorge yourself on food, that might be one thing, but if you're going into the wilderness to deprive yourself of food, then it doesn't make any sense xD It seems like a lot of people do the glutting thing for Lent also. (and a glut obviously doesn't mean just food and the ilk, but also letting yourself roll around in sloth before an exercise regime, or being extra nasty to people before you start trying to be a nice person)

  15. Re:Poor comparison on PCWorld Says Firefox is Strong, Vista is Weak · · Score: 1

    Isn't the default in XP to immediately reboot instead of showing a blue screen?

  16. Re:Is it safe? on The World's Cheapest Car Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    I don't expect they'll be motivating at much more than walking speed.

  17. Re:All knotted up for next year. on How and Why Knots Spontaneously Form · · Score: 1

    we use sheets of cardboard 8)

  18. Using inefficiency efficiently. on US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012 · · Score: 1

    My family likes to put in incandescents in winter and use them for extra heat, although recently we stopped bothering, and my dad just got a few heat lamps instead xD

  19. Re:That's great on Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard · · Score: 1

    It's good enough for Photoshop7 and about three hours of firefox!

  20. Re:Bullshit on NCAA Puts Severe Limits On Sport Event Blogging · · Score: 1

    what about triple A? ;.;

  21. Jurassic Park on Synthetic DNA About To Yield New Life Forms · · Score: 1

    Yes! Biological patents! Twenty years closer to the realization of Jurassic Park!

  22. Re:Teaching Graphic Design on Old Software or Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I think you're overestimating the skill level that high schoolers are expected to get. The only people that are going to go straight to a design job out of high school with high school classes being their only formal instruction are going to be the ones following along at home with a knack for it. If you were talking about a university level course, what you said might apply :p